Stake-holder



C. C. BERGSTROM.

STAKE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 24. I919.

1,353,624, Patented Sept. 21,1920.

:CUTHBERT c. BERGSTROM, or DENVER, COLORADO, nssrenon TO THE BEneesrRo r BREWSTER MOTOR COIVIPANY, OF DENVER, COLORADO, A CORPORATION OF COLO- RADO.

STAKEJ-IOLDER.

specification of Letters Patent. Patgntd S fi 21 1920 Application fi led February 24, 1919. Serial Ira-278,981.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Cu'rHBnRr C. Buns- STROM, a citizen of. theUnited States, residing at the city and county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stake- Holders; and I do declare the'followlng to bea full, clear, and exact description of the for confining the load.

Briefly, the invention comprises a holder having a socket, in one wall of which there is mounted a spring-pressed dog. adapted to engage and remova'bly retain a stake 'in-' serted in the socket.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 represents a truck body with the invention applied. 7

Fig. 2 isa vertical section indicated by line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a similar section with the stake removed.

Fig. 1 is ahorizontal section on line 1- of Fig. 2.

A flange for securing the same on the truck body.

The holder has a stake-receiving socket 12.

and a spring chamber 14 se oarated from the socket by a partition 16. provided in the partition through which a dog 20 extends, the latter having a hinged mounting at 22, as'shown, andbeing pressed through the aperture by a strong spring 24. The movement of the. dog is limited by a 8 is provided on the holder 10 n aperture 18 is flange 26 on its lower end, which engages the lower web of the partition 16. r

A stake S is inserted in the sOcket, being.

forced down along the face of the dog into pos1t1on as shown in Fig. 2. The strong spring 24 causes the dog to clamp the stake firmly. Draft on the stake willreadily remove it; or if the lower end of the dog becomes embedded in the stake, an edged tool may be inserted between the flange 26 and partition 16 to retract the dog.

I clai'mb 1. A stake holder, having a stake-receivmg socket and a chamber, a partition between the socket and the chamber, the partition having'an aperture, an outer socket wall and an outer chamber wall, said walls being on opposite sides of said aperture, a dog movable in said aperture, and a spring in the chamber and engaging the dog to proect it through said aperture and interposed between the dog and said outer chamber wall, the lower end of the dog having'a laterally extending ledge partially forming a pocket to assist retention of the spring in operative position.

2. A stake-holder, having a stake-receiving socket and a chamber, a partition between the socket andthe chamber, the partition having an aperture, an outer socket wall and an outer chamber wall, said walls being on opposite sidesof said aperture, 9. dog movable in said aperture, and a spring in the chamber and engaging the dog to project it through said aperture and interposed between the dog and said outer chamber wall, the free end of said dog having a projecting member thereon adapted to en- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

, gage the partition adjacent the aperture to limit movement of the dog. v 

